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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Readings & Conversation: Red
Hen's Monday Evenings at the Geffen<br>
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Monday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m.<br>
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</span></font></b>The Geffen Playhouse, in an effort to reach out to the Los
Angeles community, partnered with Red Hen Press to create our new series Red
Hen’s Monday Evenings at the Geffen, hosted by Kate Gale and select
moderators. Given the flowering of literature, music and theatre in this most
auspicious city for the arts, we are pleased to give writers a stage to speak
their voice. In the tangled palm trees and afternoon sun, some of us pause to
pick up a pen, and with our pen to call for action. As the great Raymond
Chandler so aptly put it, “When in doubt, have a man come through the
door with a gun in his hand.” Sometimes that gun is a new way of looking
at education, sometimes it’s an idea about poetry. Sometimes it
isn’t a gun at all. We invite you to come through the door into our world
of ideas. Welcome to Red Hen Press’s Monday Evenings at the Geffen.<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Jennifer Egan</span></b> is a novelist,
journalist and short story writer. Her novel, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The
Keep,</span></i> was a New York Times Notable Book for 2006, and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Look at Me </span></i>was a finalist for the National
Book Award in 2001. Egan is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis
B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She
lives in Brooklyn.<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Janet Fitch </span></b>is the author of the
novels <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Paint It Black</span></i>, published
in 2006, and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>White Oleander</span></i>, an
Oprah Book Club selection. Her short stories have appeared in such publications
as <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Los Angeles Noir</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Black Clock</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Room of One’s Own</span></i>, and <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Black Warrior Review</span></i>. She teaches creative writing at USC
and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sarah Goodyear</span></b> has written for the
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Village Voice, Time Out </span></i><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>New York</span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>,
Ms.</span></i> magazine, and many other publications. <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>View from a Burning Bridge</span></i>, published by
Red Hen Press in spring 2007, is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn, New
York, with her family.<br>
<br>
Moderator<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>: Jonathan Kirsch</span></b> is the
author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>A History of the End of the World:
How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western
Civilization</span></i> and nine other books, including <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales
of the Bible</span></i>. He is a book reviewer for the <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Los Angeles Times</span></i>, a broadcaster for NPR,
and an attorney specializing in publishing law and intellectual property.<br>
<br>
Geffen Playhouse<br>
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater<br>
10886 Le Conte Avenue<br>
Los Angeles, CA 90024<br>
For Tickets Call: 310-208-5454<br>
Admission: General $20<br>
Students & Seniors $15<br>
Seating is limited and on a first come basis.</p>
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